For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Cadell

Rivers, Floodplains and Levees Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains

Lunettes and Sand Ridges

LANDFORM Rivers, Floodplains and Levees
VEGETATION TYPE Riverine Forest.
GEOLOGY & SOILS River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs.
Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Koondrook State Forest, Perricoota State Forest, Lower Thule Rd, Campbells Island State Forest.
TREES >8M Acacia stenophylla River Cooba
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia pycnantha Golden Wattle
Acacia salicina Cooba
Exocarpos strictus Dwarf Cherry
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Cassinia sifton Dolly Bush
Dillwynia cinerascens Grey Parrot-pea
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Eutaxia microphylla s.s. Mallee Bush-pea
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. Lesser Joyweed
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Rytidosperma duttoniana Brown back Wallaby Grass
Azolla filiculoides Red Azolla
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Xerochrysum bracteatum Golden Everlasting
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Carex appressa Tall Sedge
Carex tereticaulis Rush Sedge
Centipeda cunninghamii Common Sneezeweed
Chamaesyce drummondii Flat Spurge
Cotula australis Common Cotula
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eleocharis acuta Common Spike-rush
Juncus ingens Giant Rush
Lipocarpha microcephala Button Rush
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Myriophyllum papillosum Water-milfoil
Oxalis perennans Grassland Wood sorrel
Paspalidium jubiflorum Warrego Summer-grass
Phragmites australis Common Reed
Plantago cunninghamii Sago weed
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
 Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Ranunculus pumilio Ferny Buttercup
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. Water-ribbons
Vallisneria australis. Eel-weed
Wahlenbergia fluminalis River Bluebell

 

LANDFORM Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains
VEGETATION TYPE Black Box Woodland.
GEOLOGY & SOILS Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs.
Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Perricoota State Forest, Whymoul State Forest.
TREES >8M Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus largiflorens Black Box
Eucalyptus microcarpa Grey Box
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia salicina Cooba
Atriplex nummularia Old man Saltbush
Chenopodium nitrariaceum Nitre Goosefoot
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Duma florulenta Lignum
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Lachnogrostis filiformis Blown Grass
Amphibromus nervosus Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Boerhavia dominii Tar Vine
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis Swamp Daisy
Calostemma purpureum Wilcannia Lily
Calotis scapigera Tufted Burr-daisy
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Eryngium ovinum Blue Devil
Maireana enchylaenoides Wingless Fissure-weed
Marsilea drummondii Common Nardoo
Poa fordeana Sweet Swamp grass
 Lobelia concolor Poison Pratia
Stemodia florulenta Blue Rod

 

LANDFORM Lunettes and Sand Ridges
VEGETATION TYPE Callitris Mixed Woodland (Prior Streams / Lunettes).
GEOLOGY & SOILS Low woodland to woodland of prior streams, source bordering dunes or lunettes dominated by White Cypress Pine and shrubs scattered over a grassy understorey.
Aeolian, well-drained sandy-loams and loams.
LOCATION EXAMPLE Koondrook, Lower Thule Rd.
TREES >8M Acacia homalophylla Yarran
Allocasuarina luehmannii Bulloak
Callitris glaucophylla White Cypress Pine
Callitris gracilis Murray Cypress Pine
Hakea tephrosperma Hooked Needlewood
Myoporum platycarpum Sugarwood
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m Acacia acinacea Gold-dust Wattle
Acacia brachybotrya Grey Wattle
Acacia hakeoides Western Black Wattle
Acacia montana Mallee Wattle
Acacia oswaldii Miljee
Acacia rigens Needle Wattle
Acacia salicina Cooba
Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa Native Blackthorn
Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow leaf Hopbush
Eremophila longifolia Emubush
Exocarpos aphyllus Leafless Cherry
Exocarpos strictus Dwarf Cherry
Hakea leucoptera Needlewood
Melaleuca lanceolata Moonah
Pittosporum phylliraeoides Butterbush
Santalum acuminatum Quandong
Senna artemisioides subsp. petiolaris Phyllodinous Desert Cassia
LOW SHRUBS <2m
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata Wedge leaf Hopbush
Enchylaena tomentosa Ruby Saltbush
Rhagodia spinescens Thorny Saltbush
GROUND COVERS Ajuga australis Australian Bugle
Aristida jerichoensis No. 9 Wiregrass
Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush
Rytidosperma caespitosa White top
Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata Rough Speargrass
Clematis microphylla Small-leaved Clematis
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans Climbing Saltbush
Enneapogon nigricans Pappus Grass
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat-rush
Lomandra leucocephala Woolly-head Mat-rush